Association Agreement with Ukraine ratified by all EU countries

Brussels was the last Member State of the European Union to ratify the Association Agreement with Ukraine, and now this agreement is ratified by all EU countries, said the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko

“Brussels Parliament ratified EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. All the EU countries completed the ratification process!”- President Petro Poroshenko wrote in his Twitter account on Friday night.

Now as it was approved by all 28 of the EU Member States, the Association Agreement will come into force. Earlier the Parliament of Cyprus ratified it in October, and the Parliament of Greece in November 2015. Recently, the EU confirmed to Ukrainian authorities, that the free trade area with Ukraine will come into force from January 1, 2016.